The Role of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD’s) Responsible Business Conduct Guidelines

Saner, R.; Yiu, L., (2020); Labor Rights as Human Rights: The Role of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation  and Development’s (OECD’s) Responsible Business Conduct Guidelines.

Successful resolution of conflicts around human rights and business in the context of the OECD Guidelines requires competencies in international legal, financial, and managerial rules and practices in addition to the known competencies in consensus building, mediation and conflict resolution. These multi-disciplinary competencies are needed to solve conflicts involving different stakeholders such a multinational companies, civil society organisations and governments facing reported violations of human rights by private sector companies.